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From: Robert MacLean [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 10:39 AM
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Subject:Re: [newbie] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
what does the -k
Robert MacLean banged on their keyboard and produced the following
arrangement of letters:
- what does the -k on man do?
- normally i use just man topic
see
man man
and
man apropos
anguo
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] tar.bz2 -- thanks!
while the 'j' switch will:
-j, --bzip
filter the archive through bzip2
which is what I reckon you want to do Benjamin
This of course, will only work in Mandrake 8.0 or later, not in the
7.x
series
At 12:38 PM 08/29/2001 +0200, you wrote:
what does the -k on man do?
normally i use just man topic
Robert MacLean
Doing a man man, shows the unelightening:
-k equivalent to apropos
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On Tuesday 28 August 2001 05:36 am, Benjamin Sher escribió:
Thanks to all of you who wrote in with the magic command for
uncompressing tar.bz2 files. The two commands in question are:
tar xvjf filename.tar.bz2
tar xvif filename.tar.bz2
Another,
Since you're using Kmail, I'll asume
Benjamin,
This depends on which version of Mandrake you are using. If you run
Mandrake 7.2, the command would be 'tar -xvIf filename.tar.bz2' (without
the quotes).
If you run earlier versions of Mandrake, they may not support doing it as
one step, so the commands would be 'bunzip2
tar xvif filename.tar.bz2
As an fyi, the 'i' (lowercase) option to tar (at least in ver 7.2 of
Mandrake):
'-i, --ignore-zeros ignore blocks of zeros in archive (normally mean EOF)'
This comes from the man page. This is different from 'I' which says:
'-I, --bzip2 filter archive through bzip2,
while the 'j' switch will:
-j, --bzip
filter the archive through bzip2
which is what I reckon you want to do Benjamin
This of course, will only work in Mandrake 8.0 or later, not in the 7.x
series.
Michael
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